Front End Product Manager
Location: GB, RIC, Twickenham
Salary range: 50000-60000
Employment type: Full-time
Required experience: Mid-Senior level
Required education: Bachelor's Degree
Industry: Retail
Function: Product Management

Company profile:
With an exceptional record of over 50% growth in each of the last 5 years, we’ve become the UK’s largest online retailer of products for the home and garden. We employ over 200 staff, offer more than 500,000 products on our sites and achieve sales in excess of £70m a year. We’re increasingly renowned as one of the UK’s most exciting ecommerce success stories and have ambitious plans to become a household name in home and garden retail.

Job description:
About WorldstoresWe are the UK’s largest online retailer of products for the home and garden, with 230 staff, 600,000 products and sales in excess of £70m a year. We’ve enjoyed huge commercial success over the past five years but are still hungry for more.Behind the scenes our bespoke supply chain management systems enable orders to be processed and fulfilled by a huge network of suppliers and carriers to deliver our winning proposition of huge choice and quick delivery.The company is seeking a passionate, talented and broad-skilled product manager with strong project management capabilities to work with both business and technology teams to help us achieve exceptional customer experience, conversion and business value through product and platform development.Working with the Trading Director, you will develop, manage and communicate the web platform product roadmap in collaboration with key stakeholders from across the company – covering customer-facing websites across all device platforms, and internal systems associated to the ecommerce platform.Criteria for SuccessImprove the efficiency, effectiveness and RoI of product/platform developments by means of:Improved business analysis and requirements definition, supporting business stakeholdersImproved delivery and communication through excellent project managementA data and insight driven approach to the definition and evaluation of new featuresDrive and facilitate developments that generate proven increases in conversion rateReduce costs / improve business efficiency

Requirements:
Skills and Experience RequiredProduct management experience in an ecommerce or very similar environmentFamiliar with using Google Analytics or similar to inform product developments and requirements and analyse the impact of website changes. Advanced google analytics skills including configuration desirable, but not essentialAble to formulate simple business cases for new feature developmentsExperience defining and documenting requirements, both independently and working with business stakeholders, for new developments including business analysis experience covering ‘back end’ platform developments for internal systems and business rule driven systemsVery strong project management skills and a clear focus on efficient and effective deliveryAbility to ensure UAT is carrier out to a high standard – through both being hands-on and supporting business owners in conducting effective UATExperience managing tests and experiments (A/B, multivariate or other) to inform and assess front-end developmentsExcellent understanding of and follower of trends in web usability, user experience, website design and ecommerce functionalityRelishes working closely with a technology team in an agile development environment and business teams in a fast-paced, high growth business environment. Demonstrated ability to discuss and understand technical concepts.Data driven, analytical, excellent attention to detail, organised, clear written and verbal communication skills; passion for ecommerce, user experience and technology.

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